Recuerdos del Yaqui. Principales episodios durante la campaña de 1899 a 1901

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Author: Balbas, Manuel Year: 1927 Publisher: Sociedad de Edition y Liberia Franco Americana Place: Mexico City Description: 117 pages with errata at back. pictures through out. Duodecimo (7" x 4 1/2"). First edition. For six years following the Yaqui disaster at Buatachive, Colonel (later General and Governor of Sonora) Lorenzo Torres made efforts to establish a peaceful administration of the Yaqui country. Surveys were made and land was assigned to the few Yaqui families who would accept it under the conditions of Mexican management. A mopping up of resistant Yaquis was carried on. At the end of two years a body count of 356, including both men and women, killed in encounters with Mexican soldiers was recorded, and about 4000 Yaquis were taken prisoner and assigned land (Troncoso, 1905: 203-228). Fewer than half of the latter seem to have stayed in the Yaqui country. Guerrilla warfare increasingly developed which was carried on by small Yaqui forces maintaining themselves around the waterholes in the Bacatete Mountains. The name of Juan Maldonado, called Tetabiate by Yaquis, became prominent as the ablest of the guerrilla leaders. During 1896, Mexican forces protecting Mexicans who were being encouraged to settle in the Yaqui country made contract with Juan Maldonado (Hernandez, 1902: 150-161; Troncoso, 1905: 229-234). Colonel Peinado, working through a Yaqui interpreter named Juan Buitemea, carried on negotiations. Peinado arranged for the formal signing of a peace treaty a

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